DNR seeks to put moose on endangered-species list
December 10, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Minnesota’s beleaguered moose would be one of 67 animals added to the state’s official endangered-species list under a proposal announced Monday by the Department of Natural Resources.
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Is that cynicism or just plain irony?
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The Deerhunters’ Assoc wants to flood the forest with whitetail deer even where they are not indigenous – the Arrowhead Region. They carry a parasite that is lethal to the moose, or “elk” (as opposed to the wapiti, we call elk in N America).
Also, the ideal moose habitat is comprised of waterways and mature boreal forest (spruce, fir are its favorites) and cool, moss and fern carpeted forest floors.
The summers are getting warmer, the boreal forest is migrating northward, the whitetail deer is encroaching or rather well established now in the Arrowhead and the timber industry has been continually renewing the forest (has its good and bad consequences – bad for the moose).
Is it any wonder the species is declining?
Where’s the wildlife / natural resource management in this picture, DNR?
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That’s right! BUSH DID IT! ……………………NOT!
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Tom Landwehr will have to put the ‘hardly spotted northern Minnesota tourist’ on the endangered list if the DNR moves forward with plans to allow heavy metal mining in the Ely area. Because as we know heavy industry and tourism are like oil and water and don’t mix well together.
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Interesting…Minnesota’s Timber Wolves go off the ESL and the Minnesota Moose needs to go on it! Coincidence? I think not! Nice going DNR, wait until we’ve nearly lost our icon before taking action.
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I think we need to find out why Moose are declining, whether disease or predation. I am an old hunter, while I have never hunted moose, I do support scientific research to find out why we are losing so many. And please, don’t tell me about global warming.
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Follow this URL skidoolund for a “scientific” perspective on Minnesota’s dwindling moose population as a result of climate change. BTW global warming is so 1990.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rapid-climate-changes-turn-north-woods-into-moose-graveyard
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Well, to clarify it is not Global Warming… It is climate change.
And I think it is fairly obvious that our climate is, indeed, changing.
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And please, don’t tell me about global warming.
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Global warming seems to be playing a major role. You’re welcome.
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Back in the years when the moose population was expanding in the northwestern part of the state, fires in the swampy areas the moose liked were common. The fires controlled the tick populations. Today fires are vigorously supressed. The baiting of deer has been way understated in the state and brought deer and moose into close proximity as they eat the same types of food and bait piles were easy pickings. I’d like several million dollars to further study this though to date it has cost nothing for my services.
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I am not a hunter and don’t know anything specific about the Moose situation….but doesn’t it seem a bit odd to be worried about the dwindling population of moose and yet allow them to be hunted for sport ?
It wouldn’t seem to matter if it’s due to climate change, a change in the habitat they desire or parasites….if there is a hunting season the decline will accelerate wouldn’t it ? The logic just seems odd to me to have something one step away from the endangered species list and yet allow it to be hunted.
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Moose populations are dwindling in Minnesota but they aren’t endangered anywhere else. The population is crashing in Minnesota for reasons unrelated to hunting though we soon won’t have a huntable population.
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